5. Dumas enclosed a copy in his own hand of a Dec. 27 letter from Jones reporting he had just sailed and asking help recovering lost anchors: Bradford, Jones Papers, reel 5, no. 960. For Jones’s subsequent voyage see John S. Barnes, ed., The Logs of the Serapis-Alliance-Ariel under the Command of John Paul Jones 1779–1780 (New York, 1911), pp. 49–69.

6. Dumas also enclosed a French translation in his own hand of Amsterdam’s protest of the States General’s expulsion of Jones. It bears the notation, “Dumas Dec 22. 1779.”

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